Rose Maddox with the Vern Williams Band - This Is Rose Maddox

From the video "The Life and Time of Rose Maddox" a film by Gail Waldron.This video is currently unavailable, but it's a good representation of the music you will hear on this CD, and has a scene from the actual recording session.

Along with her brothers, Rose Maddox, the Queen of West Coast Country Music, defined the California Country Music sound and pioneered rock-a-billy music. By the 1980s country music had abandoned Rose, but she found a new home in Bluegrass Music (she was the first woman to record a bluegrass album). On this 1980 recording, she teamed up with bluegrass legend, the late Vern Williams and his band to record some of her best known songs and best loved bluegrass songs.

“For all bluegrass fans, for all country fans, this is a Drop Everything And Go Get It disc: it just doesn’t get any better than this. Maddox, 50-something at the time, had all her power, no inhibitions, and a lifetime of singing and showbiz experience going for her, while the Vern Williams Band was not just the top bluegrass band on the West Coast, but one of the top bands, period.”